COMEDIAN Stewart Lee will be testing out his new material on the audience at Forum Theatre, Malvern when he appears on Friday, February 6.

Room With A Stew will be a chance for him to try new material in preparation for Stewart's next BBC2 series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.

The country-wide tour is selling fast but there are still seats left for his appearance at Malvern Theatres.

Stewart began stand-up at the age of 20 in 1988, winning the Hackney Empire new act of the year award in 1990.

In the 90's he contributed to various BBC Radio comedy shows, including Fist of Fun and On The Hour, with Steve Coogan and Chris Morris, performed as a stand-up almost nightly on the London circuit, and co-created four series for BBC2 with Richard Herring.

Stewart directed the Mighty Boosh's breakthrough Edinburgh show, Arctic Boosh (1999), Simon Munnery's Golden Rose Of Montreux nominated BBC2 show, Attention Scum, (2000), and a revival of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio (Underbelly 2007).

In 2001 he was invited to help write the libretto of, and direct, the composer Richard Thomas' developing work, Jerry Springer The Opera, at Battersea Arts Centre.

The show won four Olivier awards after its National Theatre run, though it was prevented from enjoying any commercial future by the pressure group, Christian Voice.

Stewart is also the author of a novel, The Perfect Fool, the stand-up treatise How I Escaped My Certain Fate, and the theatre pieces Pea Green Boat, What Would Judas Do?, Johnson and Boswell, Late But Live, and Interiors.

Stewart is a patron of the arts radio station Resonance 104.4 FM, and has written on music for The Sunday Times, The Wire, Bucketful Of Brains, and Mojo.

Show begins at 8pm. Tickets are available by calling 01684 892277 or online at malvern-theatres.co.uk.